Apple Inc. (AAPL) has acquired Topsy Labs Inc. a social media firm that specializes in Twitter (TWTR) analytics for more than $200 million, according to sources in the Wall Street Journal. Topsy specializes in...

Total spending from Thursday through Sunday fell 3% from a year earlier to $57.4 billion, with shoppers spending an average of $407.02, down 4% from $423.55 a year earlier, according to the National Retail...

Shopping market research firm InfoScout reports that Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox One was the most popular video game console on this year's Black Friday, beating Sony's (SNE) PlayStation 4 in the US. According to collected...

Sears Holdings surprises with two of the top entries in Google trends for Black Friday with Kmart & Sears both receiving “200K+ searches”. The only other company with two trending was Apple which had...

Wall Street Journal reports that, “Foot traffic climbed 2.8% on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, according to data from ShopperTrak LLC, bumping sales up 2.3% to $12.3 billion over those two days. The jump was...

TIPS are a relatively new creation as they came into existence in 1997. With central banks from Europe to Japan to America pumping more and more money into economies with Quantitative Easing and many...